[tex-k] header special extension proposal

[Paul Vojta]

On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 09:17:42AM +0200, Hendri Adriaens wrote:
> > As I said in my previous e-mail, please send an example.
> 
> See below. Again, please don't (!) distribute this or use it in any actual
> applications. I won't provide help when it fails! Again, the package is just
> a proof-of-concept at the moment and even if dvips line breaking in
> \special{! could be switched off, there are plenty of things to be sorted
> out in the package at the moment, like catcodes etc. I have done that
> already here, but didn't include that in the package anymore as I got to
> understand that dvips would be a problem anyway for the package. You will
> see some strange things when looking at the code. Again, that has been
> sorted out, but I didn't do the effort of putting that in the package.
> 
> http://stuwww.uvt.nl/~hendri/graphicx-add.zip

Got it, thanks.

Actually, what I had in mind was something more like this:

	http://math.berkeley.edu/~vojta/dvipshack.zip

To try it:

	make test1.ps
	gs -- test1.ps

and likewise for test2.ps.  This is for Unix (sorry).

Of course, in test1 the perl script is something you'd (I believe) like
to avoid having the user run (so my example doesn't work either, but if
one had a working example, then there would be no request to modify dvips).

I don't understand, though, why test2 doesn't work.  Anyone have any
ideas?

Sincerely,


Paul Vojta, vojta at math.berkeley.edu